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Great Britain (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides) by DK Publishing Publisher Comments DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain is your indispensable guide to England, Scotland, and Wales. This fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of key cities and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $24.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James by David Downie Publisher Comments Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees. Starting on the Rue Saint-Jacques then trekking 750 miles south to Roncesvalles, Spain, their eccentric route takes 72... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Hawaii (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides) by DK Publishing Publisher Comments DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Hawaii will lead you straight to the best attractions Hawaii has to offer, from in-depth coverage of the unforgettable sights to the rich culture, history, and cuisine of this unique state. DK's essential guide will help... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World (P.S.) by Claire Fontaine Publisher Comments Their bestselling memoir, Come Back, inspired readers with the story of Mia Fontaine's harrowing drug addiction and her mother, Claire's, desperate and ultimately successful attempts to save her. Now, a decade later, as Mia finds that adult life isn't... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Granta Book of Travel by Liz Jobey Publisher Comments Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document life in largely... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay by Benjamin Taylor Publisher Comments A lively, elegantly concise historic tour of Italy’s city by the bay An invaluable addition to the art of literary travel writing, Naples Declared presents an informative and compulsively readable account of three thousand years of Naples... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Vast Unknown Signed Edition by Broughton Coburn Publisher Comments By the author of the New York Times bestselling Everest: Mountain Without Mercy, this chronicle of the iconic first American expedition to Mt. Everest in May 1963 — published to coincide with the climb's 50th anniversary — combines riveting... (read more) Available May 7, 2013 Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough Publisher Comments Russia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity masks a deep-rooted demographic tragedy. Faced with staggering population declineand near-certain economic collapse... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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The Turk Who Loved Apples: And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World by Matt Gross Publisher Comments While writing his celebrated Frugal Traveler column for the New York Times, Matt Gross began to feel hemmed in by its focus on what he thought of as traveling on the cheap at all costs.” When his editor offered him the opportunity to do... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel Publisher Comments The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast—the gorilla—only to stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the day:... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Tripping the World Fantastic: A Journey Through the Music of Our Planet by Glenn Dixon Publisher Comments Every culture on Earth has music. Every culture that's ever existed has had it, but we don't exactly know why. Music is not like food, shelter, or having opposable thumbs. We don't need it to live, and yet we can't seem to live without it. Glenn Dixon... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Other Side of the Tiber: Reflections on Time in Italy by Wallis Wilde-menozzi Publisher Comments A moving and illuminating memoir about a singular womans relationship with a fascinating and complex country A fresh, nuanced perspective on a profoundly perplexing country: this is what Wallis Wilde-Menozzis unique, captivating narrative... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Mumbai New York Scranton: A Memoir by Tamara Shopsin Publisher Comments An extraordinarily moving memoir from an iconoclastic new talent—an artist, cook, and illustrator whose adventures at home and abroad reveal the importance of living life with your eyes wide open. Best known for her witty illustrations, and as... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Amsterdam (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides) by DK Publishing Publisher Comments DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Amsterdam will lead you straight to the best attractions this great city has to offer, including the Van Gogh Museum, the most scenic canals, and the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops. You'll find listings, activities,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland by Pamela Olson Publisher Comments For much of her life like many Westerners most of what Pamela Olson knew of the Middle East was informed by headlines and stereotypes. But when she traveled to Palestine in 2003, she found herself thrown with dizzying speed into the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul by Richard Tillinghast Publisher Comments An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul is a travel book in the classic tradition of Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Jan Morris. Tillinghast is an old Istanbul hand who first visited the city fifty years ago and has seen the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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South: Shackleton's Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments In 1914, as Europe braces for an unfathomably deadly war, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets sail for Antarctica to do the impossible: traverse the continent. He has a ship (the aptly named Endurance), a head brimming with optimism, and 28 men willing... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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My Travel Memories by White Star Synopsis Travel opens your eyes, your mind, and your heart—so you'll want to remember every minute of the journey. Capture those memories in this beautiful journal, which has space for recording the details of six trips, as well as a map to mark the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Spiral
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Summers in Supino: Becoming Italian by Maria Coletta Mclean Publisher Comments An Italian Canadian woman recounts her annual summer trips with her husband to her ancestral village of Supino, Italy, in this heartwarming hybrid of travel guide and memoir. Written with humor and heart, it describes her process of adjusting to life in... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Romancing the East: A Literary Odyssey from Shangri-La to the River Kwai by Jerry Hopkins Publisher Comments From the time of Marco Polo's trek across the Central Asian desert to the empire of the mighty Kahn, no other place on earth, not the languid South Pacific or even deepest, darkest Africa has so challenged and enchanted the Western imagination as have... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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